The novel's description of the love between Inman and Ada is not profound and careful, but mainly depicts the loneliness and pain of the characters in a desperate situation. This desperate situation is more precisely the situation after the things they once had were ruthlessly deprived. For example, the blind old man who sells peanuts at the beginning of the novel is unwilling to exchange anything for 10 minutes to see the world, because he is afraid that the experience of gaining and losing for 10 minutes will fill his heart with resentment, so he would rather never watch it this world. How much remorse, resentment and hatred in our hearts are lost because of what is gained? I'm afraid most are.
The war has left men thousands of miles away from home, women and children have no support, and war has deprived them of everything, causing tragedies to happen all the time. It is like a festering wound that cannot heal, but slowly grows and penetrates into the bone marrow bit by bit. The price is hunger, cold, helplessness, despair, and plunges every once alive life into endless darkness and tortures every soul.
After experiencing many dangers, finally set foot on the homeland, and met the sweetheart of Chao Simu, the two wounded hearts seem to be healed slowly. After they made countless blueprints for a better future, they still could not escape the war. The powerful radiating power of this sinful force robs the promise of love of growing old together. All the tragedies Inman saw on the way back home—everyone sunk in a quagmire of despair—was a harbinger of Inman's end.
On the other hand, the author presents us with a completely different and almost vigorous life state. In the remote cold mountains, the weak Ada got rid of hunger with the help of Ruby, and they rely on their own hands to work, Plant, create food. There is no doubt that Ruby is a self-reliant and powerful angel who came to Ada's life, so that she can learn the most practical and useful skills for life, such as farming animals, planting, weaving and so on. Ruby's knowledge of nature is a genius, she knows when is the best time to sow crops, she knows the habits of various animals and birds in the forest, she knows the code of nature, she knows how to hunt in the wild Survive. And it was her tragic childhood that made her learn these things. An irresponsible father forced her to find food to fill her stomach when she was young. Since she was a child, she knew that if she did not create food with her own hands, she would starve to death. No one other than herself can be her strong backing. Now Ada is also facing such a situation. The war has deprived her of a carefree and prosperous life. Now she can only rely on her own hands to create. Fortunately, she has a Ruby to teach her to help her.
Inman is destined to be a tragic figure, and the brutal war scenes have become a nightmare that will never go away in his heart, and worthless deaths are repeated in front of him. The stump was broken, and the blood flowed like a river. Inman was so terrified and desperate for the war and death in front of him, he couldn't face the ugliness of the world, and the war exposed all the ugliness in broad daylight. He was angry that there were militants everywhere, and no one wanted to stop the evil deeds in this world, so that the tragedy would never happen again. He gave no hope for the future situation. "According to the current development trend, in a few years, people will eat each other alive." It seemed that only when he was dead and numb would he ease his fear of death a little. What Inman was deprived by the war was probably the once pure, pure and beautiful self and heart. However, he is unwilling to lose himself like this. He still has his yearning and pursuit for a better life. As long as he thinks of that distant hometown, Lengshan, and the secluded and charming mountains, forests, and flowing water, it is enough to rekindle it. Hope, and the Ada who haunted him, these are probably the only remaining pure land in his heart.
So he set out for this pure land, and all the way was starvation, cold, violence, pursuit, deception, and death. The war devoured kind-hearted people. What Inman saw was the living state of another group of people who had not faced the war, but were directly victimized by the war. Their situation was still hopeless, watching death befall their relatives and then themselves. . Inman kept fleeing and running, unaware that he was already walking on the road of death, despair and loneliness enveloped him all the way west. Even the pure land in his heart could no longer sweep away the despair and loneliness that festered into his whole body. As the depressed voice in Inman told him, you are doomed. Fear and hatred have eaten through your heart like canine worms. Faith and hope are meaningless, and the tomb on earth is already waiting for you.
I have traveled through mountains and rivers just to find you, and I will never let you leave again. Is Inman looking for Cold Mountain? Is it Ada? Or is it a "stone of light" that can make him forget his fears and get rid of despair? We never lose hope and courage in life because of it.
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